Fire-hoe.



- PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

J. P. HANSON. FIRE HOE.

APPLICATION FILED MAYM, 190a.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Brien.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed May 14, 1906. Serial No. 316,831.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB P. HANSON, a citizen of the United Statesresiding at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Hoes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fire-hoes which are used particularly in connection with steamboiler furnaces and the like to draw the fires or ashes, to level the bed of burning coal, and to arrange the coal upon the grate to expedite combustion, and for other purposes. It is essential that such hoes should be of the stoutest practicable construction, subjected as they continually are to the roughest usage and handling.

It is the object of my invention to produce a fire-hoe having special construction and arrangement of parts by which it is believed material economy of construction results and that hoes so made are possessed of maxi mum strength and durability obtainable with the given weight and kind of metal employed.

I accomplish the object set forthbyfashioning and associating parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 represents a front view of the frame before the handle is welded on. Fig. 2 is an end view of the frame. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the frame on line 1 1 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a similar section on the line 2 2 of that figure. In Figs. 3 and 4 the blade is shown in position against the frame before being welded. Fig. 5 represents a side view of my invention after the handle has been welded to the frame and the frame to the blade. Fig. 6 is a perspective View showing all the parts together; and Fig. 7 is a sectional view of a portion of the handle, showing the end prepared for welding.

Like letters are used to refer to the same parts throughout.

The letter A marks the part that I have termed the frame in this description. It is a single piece of stout metal bar bent at each end, and the end portions a are formed narrower and thinner as their points are approached. I11 the middle there is fashioned a bulging body portion (referred to by a) to give strength to the frame and to afford a sufficient base or surface to receive the handle, as mentioned below. The surfaces of the frame front and rear are flat.

The letter B designates the blade of my invention. It is a plate of metal following the contour of the frame at the top and having a straight edge at the bottom, as illustrated. In Figs. 3 and 4 the blade is shown against the frame.

For a handle I usually employ a piece of round iron red O of suitable size and uality and head its end 0, substantially as s iown in Fig. 7. This headed end 0 I first weld to the middle of the body or bulging portion a of frame A. The two parts, frame A and blade B, are then welded together throughout the surface of the framethat is to say, as far as possible the surface of the frame in contact with the blade is one complete weld, and when the edges of plate and frame are roughly finished by grinding or otherwise the line of juncture is not readily noticeable. The appearance is that of a single piece, as shown in Fig. 5. The particular form of frame described above gives great strength to the blade and is of easy construction. By this method of construction there results a firehoe which to all intents and purposes is one single piece of tough iron or steel and capable of withstanding any conditions of use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A fne-hoe, comprising a blade, a flat frame having a relatively widened middle portion and two bent end portions, the flat sides of the said frame being arranged substantially parallel with the blade, and one of said sides of the frame being secured to the blade, and a handle secured to the widened portion of the frame and projecting at an angle with the surfaceof the frame, as set forth.

2. A fire-hoe, comprising a blade, a flat frame having greater thickness than the blade and a relatively widened middle portion and two bent end portions, the flat sides of the said frame being arranged substantially parallel with the blade, and one of the said sides of the frame being secured to the blade, and a handle secured to the widened portion of the said frame and projecting at an angle with the surface of the frame as set forth.

3. A fire-hoe, comprising a blade, a flat frame having two bent end portions and a portion gradually increasing in width from the said bent ends toward the middle of the frame, the flat sides of the said frame being arranged substantially parallel With the blade,

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and one of the said sides of the frame being secured to the blade, and a handle secured to the widest portion of the said frame and pro jecting at an angle with the surface of the frame, as set forth.

4. A fire-hoe, comprising a blade, a fiat frame having a relatively widened middle portion and two bent tapering end portions, the flat sides of the said frame being arranged substantially parallel with the blade and one of said sides of the framebeing secured to the blade, and a handle secured to the widened portion of the frame and projecting at an angle with the surface of the frame, as set forth. A

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB P. H NSON.

Witnesses I WILLIAM CORBETr, OHALI T. JARRON. 

